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A sloppy Saturday Night across Southeast Texas


November 29, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — Off and on rain continues across SE Texas, and that rain will be with us into the evening and into early Sunday morning. Because it has been relatively dry for the last two months, the creeks, bayous, and rivers should be able to handle that kind of rain with no problem. It’s the street drainage that …

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Houston non-profit has $40,000 donated tractor stolen


November 29, 2020

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — A local charity is recovering after a Thanksgiving Day burglary left them without the means to produce and transport healthy food that helps feed many Houstonians. Recipe for Success Foundation runs Hope Farms on Scott Street and Airport Boulevard. Their mission is to help feed Houstonians with affordable, healthy produce. They also teach people about healthy …

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Punjab records 738 fresh COVID-19 infections, 15 deaths


November 28, 2020

LAHORE: Coronavirus cases are on the rise across Punjab as the province recorded 738 fresh COVID-19 infections and 15 deaths over the last 24 hours, The provincial tally of infections has climbed to 117,898 with addition of the fresh cases, the Primary and Secondary Health Department. Of the total new cases, 367 emerged in Lahore while 72 in Rawalpindi, the …

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US vaccine plans take shape


November 28, 2020

WASHINGTON: US health authorities will hold an emergency meeting next week to recommend that a coronavirus vaccine awaiting approval be given first to healthcare professionals and people in long-term care facilities. The meeting, announced on Friday by a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) committee on immunizations, suggests that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) may be close …

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Another polio virus case surfaced in Balochistan: officials


November 28, 2020

QUETTA: Another case of the crippling polio virus disease has surfaced in Balochistan, taking the tally of the cases for the current year to 21 in the province. Provincial health department has confirmed that a ten-month old baby girl, resident of Kharotabad near Quetta, tested positive for the virus. The health officials said that the samples of the child had …

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Student sues SMU after he was suspended over ‘flirtatious joke’ involving a piece of poultry


November 28, 2020

A student is suing Southern Methodist University after it suspended him this semester following what the lawsuit calls an “innocent joke” involving a cut of poultry — a “cleaned and filleted dove breast” he left outside a neighbor’s door. The lawsuit, filed in a Dallas County district court Nov. 17, alleges that the university overreacted to the incident and then …

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Dallas ISD launched an ambitious program to prep students for careers. How’s it going during a pandemic?


November 28, 2020

Fourteen-year-old Israel Olivares logs into school from home most days. He’ll usually sit in his bed, staring at a screen for seven hours. Then, for a couple of treasured class periods each Friday afternoon, he explores the skies above Oak Cliff. Constable feels “disrespected” after office moved to basement near “NEGROES” sign Ellis County Constable Precinct 3 Curtis Polk Jr. …

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How DPD’s Latino community policing program adapted in the pandemic


November 28, 2020

Dallas Police Sgt. Eddie Reyes had to quickly adapt plans for the department’s Latino outreach efforts when the coronavirus pandemic made large in-person gatherings too risky. After its longtime supervisor retired in 2019, Reyes was tasked with revamping the Unidos program, which is the department’s community policing program aimed at Latinos that started in 2015. Constable feels “disrespected” after office moved to …

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Former first lady Laura Bush asks Texas, nation to ‘give the gift of hope’ after COVID-19


November 28, 2020

Former first lady Laura Bush is asking her fellow Texans and people across the country to help a little more than usual this holiday season following the devastation of the coronavirus pandemic. “It’s clear this year the needs of Americans is great,” Bush said in taped comments posted on Thanksgiving to her social media accounts. “The pandemic of COVID-19 and its impact …

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